because it struck me that we are mired down in sacramento and, frankly, most of our city and county governments, in most of our school boards. we are -- and in washington d.c. we are mired down in such petty, destructive, negative politics, surrounded by campaigns of such unending viciousness and dishonesty that the entire fabric of our system's at stake. we need to breakout from this moment in american history. and what i found as i began to look around -- and this is truly what makes this, to me, one of the most extraordinary periods in american history. everywhere you go there are hard working, intelligent people who are pioneers of the to future. and we're inventing things in energy, they're inventing things in transportation, they're inventing things in learning, they're inventing things in going into space, they're inventing things in being dramatically more effective. and you go around s and you say show me the most interesting things that are happening right here in california. google has a self-driving car which has covered over 600,000 miles. given the way we came down today, i'm not